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... was found for an increased risk of diabetes among users of inhaled GCs In contrast, a more recent study of 388,584 patients treated for respiratory disease identified that inhaled GC use is associated ... Neurotransmitter Dopamine decrease Serotonin decrease -Aminobutyric acid decrease Neuropeptide Y decrease Dynorphin increase Corticotropin-releasing factor increase Norepinephrine increase Effect Dysphoria ... is a good example of the complexity of the meaning of the responses Thus, an increase in skin conductance as a response to the smell and the presence of alcohol in alcoholics has been found (Staiger...

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... the advantages of the compactness, reliability, ease of use and affordability of the 980 nm Diode Lasers, we evaluated the efficacy and safety of one such Laser for the treatment of pathological ... artificial irradiation as well as genetic predisposition In the past, besides chemical sclerosis for large vascular angiectasias, these lesions were treated by a variety of methods including electrocoagulation, ... (EMLA® AstraZeneca LP, Wilmington, Del) A small anallergic plaster was ap- plied for three days to the residual areas of the larger pigmentations Vascular lesions This group consisted of 10 patients...

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... serine/threonine kinase Raf FRET biosensors for GTPase activity such as Raichu-Ras (Ras and Interacting protein CHi‐ meric Unit for RAS) use this Ras-Raf interaction as the basis for the molecular ... Development of GFP-based biosensors possessing the binding properties of antibodies Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009;106(29): 11895-900 http://www.pnas.org/content/ ... dimension of the molecules, as well as the possibility to transfer monolayers on almost any kind of solid substrate Based on the self-assembled properties of amphiphilic biomolecules 39 40 State of...

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... time, “Offline Thai handwritten character recognition” task has been investigated but is only in the research phase of isolated characters Almost all proposed engines were neural network-based ... styles of input features [10], [11] There has been a small amount of research on “Online handwritten character recognition” One attempt was proposed by [12], which was also neural networkbased ... technical improvement of ArnThai has been reported in [9] Recently, focus has been changed to develop system that are more robust with any unclean scanning input The approach of using more efficient...

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... total of twenty-six distinct relations These relations provide a flexible resource to be used as the basis of the computations of WA S PB EN CH The relations contain a substantial number of errors, ... triple occurs The number of relations marked will depend on the time available to the lexicographer, as well as the complexity of the sense division to be made The act of assigning senses to patterns ... set of classified collocations, or clues, and a set of corpus instances for the word, the algorithm is as follows: mation and log frequency Our experience of working lexicographers' use of Mutual...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:20

... second CE is of class C, essentially asking our coreference resolver to determine whether each member of class C is coreferent with each of its preceding CEs We then count the number of unique correct/incorrect ... threshold from the training set as in the BASELINE system Below, we resume our investigation of the role of three coreference resolution subtasks and measure the impact of each on overall performance ... Resolution Classes To score each resolution class separately, we define a new variant of the MUC scorer We compute a MUC-RC score (for MUC Resolution Class) for class C as follows: we assume that...

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... (distance measures similarity measures between colors, not between grey levels) (E.g use RGB and Euclidian distance as measure of “closeness” of colors) Some approaches use subsets of color features ... minimized C2 The shift of saturation should be as small as possible C3 An increase in saturation is preferable to a decrease in saturation C4 Maximize the relative luminance contrast ⇒ In mathematical ... Vectorial Quantization (VQ) of the color space: • • Several versions; all based on LBG original algorithm Motivation: reduce (usually drastically!) the number of colors in a group of images How? Cluster...

Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 13:36

... pattern recognition and classification tasks The basic idea is to maximize the betweenclass distance and minimize the within-class distance In order to make the within-class scatter matrix nonsingular, ... 3.1 Experiments with a Baseline Algorithm This experiment involves using clear images from the database as gallery images We gradually increase the number of gallery of faces from one to fifteen ... gallery does not have as much variation as the test set As we increase the threshold of SCI, more test images with low quality are rejected and hence the recognition rate increases; the rejection...

Ngày tải lên: 28/04/2014, 09:57

... Robustness 29 Class Sb Sb Class Sw Sw Class (a) (b) φ1 (c) φ1 Class Sb φ2 Class Sw Class (d) (e) Fig Procedure of simultaneous diagonalization: (a) The distributions of the three-class problem, ... evaluate the efficacy of BDPCA+LDA we make use of the FERET face database The FERET face database is a US Department of Defense-sponsored face database and is one of the standard databases used in testing ... estimation of the density function The first type of nonparametric approaches encompasses the prototype based classifiers; a typical example of the second type is the Parzen window method Prototype based...

Ngày tải lên: 28/04/2014, 09:59

... many diseases An area with near-term potential is detecting molecules associated with diseases such as cancer, diabetes mellitus, neurodegenerative diseases, as well as detecting microorganisms ... imaging is providing increasing power to studies of animal models of disease and is beginning to be used in clinical investigations as a non-invasive means of monitoring disease progress and response ... which is the reason why graphite can be used as material in pencils and as the basis of some lubricants Unlike diamond, graphite is a conductor of electricity As illustrated by these classical examples,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/05/2014, 14:35

... details of how to select the pump speed) A high pump speed is required when measuring certain gases in order to reduce the absorption of these gases by the materials in the gas passage These gases ... and operations of datalog features, please refer to Sections 4.6 and of this manual 2-9 OPERATION OF VRAE 2.4 Operations The VRAE multi gas monitor offers three different user modes of operation: ... number of remaining 2-7 OPERATION OF VRAE seconds The message “Off! ” flashes on the LCD display and the display will go blank, indicating that the monitor is turned off Turning off the multi gas...

Ngày tải lên: 28/05/2014, 14:35

... evaluations of students Quality of classification and Shapley value for classification Cl and set of criteria P Evaluations of new students Evaluations of new students Information table of the illustrative ... of action 242 Partial profiles and partial broken lines of Partial frequencies of 243 Determination of a relation between the two alternatives on the basis of the values of global indices 254 259 ... accuracy Per class accuracy: Precise assignments Assignments of the elements to intervals of classes Importance indexes Global and weighted accuracy in % Data table presenting examples of comprehensive...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 09:58

... number of studies on AAV-based vectors have been published, as shown in Figure The initial studies described aspects of the virology and molecular biology of the virus, virus isolation, as well as ... the forefront of gene therapy in the past decade The exponential progress of AAV-based vectors has been made possible by the advances in the knowledge of the virology and biology of this virus, ... total of 1,283 gene therapy clinical trials have been approved Only 4% (47) of them are AAV-based gene therapy trials, distributed in phase I (66%), phase I/II (17%), phase II (6%) and phase III...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... location on the body Review of the state of the art in energy-harvesting devices Center of mass Currently available center -of- mass devices use the motion of the center of mass relative to the ground ... amount of 0.8 W, i.e., close to our estimation of a maximum of W during normal walking The utilization of center of mass motion enables the production of energy with 40% of metabolic cost of generating ... negative portion is 3.52 J Center of mass motion Another motion that could be utilized to generate energy is the motion of the center of mass The center of mass performs a motion similar to a...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... number of studies on AAV-based vectors have been published, as shown in Figure The initial studies described aspects of the virology and molecular biology of the virus, virus isolation, as well as ... the forefront of gene therapy in the past decade The exponential progress of AAV-based vectors has been made possible by the advances in the knowledge of the virology and biology of this virus, ... total of 1,283 gene therapy clinical trials have been approved Only 4% (47) of them are AAV-based gene therapy trials, distributed in phase I (66%), phase I/II (17%), phase II (6%) and phase III...

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